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Wildlife rehabilitators Karen Becker and Janelle Stephenson, with the Wildlife Rescue Association, helped this rare screech owl regain most of its sight after it flew into a car near Whistler. The owl was released earlier this month close to where it was found.
Marelle Reid staff reporter
A rare Western screech owl that was injured after flying into a car has made a remarkable recovery, thanks to the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. (WRA) in Burnaby. The young female owl lost sight in one eye and suffered a concussion after colliding with a car on a remote logging road north of Whistler in late April. The driver took the stunned bird to the care centre next to Burnaby Lake where a team of staff and veterinarians were able to save the badly damaged eye. “We knew that if we could sort out the eye, then she would be ready to go back to the wild,” said Yolanda Brooks, WRA communications consultant. After treatment by a veterinary ophthalmologist to repair a partially detached retina and paralyzed eyelid, the owl was soon able to demonstrate skills enough to fend for itself again.
Paul Steeves/ special to the burnaby now
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Pipeline expansion forum packs local church Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
It was a full house at St. Timothy Anglican Church on Wednesday evening, as residents packed the building for Burnaby’s first public forum on the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. The panel featured representatives from Chevron, Kinder Morgan and the TsleilWaututh First Nation, with Mayor Derek Corrigan and local MP Kennedy Stewart. The meeting was not part of Kinder Morgan’s official public consultation process; the church organized it because congregation members have property close to the existing pipeline.
Kinder Morgan’s Mike Davies gave a brief outline of the project, which includes twinning the existing Trans Mountain pipeline to increase daily capacity from 300,000 barrels of oil to 750,000, much of which will be shipped via tanker. The line, which runs oil from Alberta to Burnaby, was built in 1953. According to Davies, the company will spend a year on project refinement and consultation before applying to the National Energy Board for approval. Construction could start in 2016 and last one and a half years, he said. The project would also require expanding the existing tank farm on Burnaby Mountain and adding a second dock to the Westridge Marine Terminal to allow space
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for three tanker berths. Ray Lord, from Chevron’s Burnaby refinery, told the audience that his company was a customer of Kinder Morgan’s, and fellow Chevron employee Paul Grey outlined the pipeline’s important role in supplying the refinery with crude. “You can imagine, it’s a pretty critical part of the refinery,” Grey said. “We would (like) to continue receiving crude.” Stewart talked of the Conservative government’s recent changes to environmental approval process, mainly the new time constraints (NEB reviews will last two years maximum) and the limits on who can participate. Stewart also spoke of a phone survey he conducted on the pipe-
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line, where the majority of respondents in his riding were opposed to the expansion. Corrigan said he was a supporter of business in Burnaby and wanted all the facts on the pipeline, but he also recounted a meeting he had with representatives from the National Energy Board, and how he was surprised and appalled that there was no national energy plan in Canada. “There’s no idea as to what is the appropriate way to utilize the billions of dollars of assets that come out of our Alberta tar sands. There’s no idea as to what the long-term strategy should be for energy self-sufficiency in Canada or even energy self-sufficiency in North America. In fact, Forum Page 3
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